August 26, 201311 yr Here are the Top 10 artists in the order of weeks spent on the UK Singles chart. 1,301 Elvis Presley 1,175 Cliff Richard 850 Rihanna 770 The Shadows 735 Madonna 672 Elton John 670 Diana Ross 665 Michael Jackson 479 Kanye West 476 Rod Stewart Totals are up to and including week ending 24th August 2013. Weeks only included where artists are specially named as a contributing artist on a hit. Therefore, Shadows hits with Cliff are included, but Michael Jackson hits with the Jackson 5 are not (unless it is listed as Michael Jackson and the Jackson 5). Likewise Diana Ross' total includes hits as Diana Ross & the Supremes, but not as the Supremes. These sort of lists are minefields! For what it's worth, I've got: 1299 Elvis 1175 Cliff 829 Rihanna 742 Shadows 736 Madonna 664 Michael Jackson 661 Elton John 559 Diana Ross 481 Kanye West 477 David Guetta 476 Rod Stewart 465 Beatles 464 Jay-Z 461 Kylie 453 Bowie etc. etc. etc. At least I agree with you re Cliff & Rod! I'll go back over my data over the next 48 hours and see if I can spot where I'm light, particulary re Diana Ross. In terms of Rihanna, I don't have her credited individually on "All of The Lights" or "Just Stand Up" but that would add 23 weeks and make her 852 rather than the 850 you have
August 26, 201311 yr I used the Polyhex Chart Runs Site, & a Printer Calculator, to add up each Acts Singles Chart Weeks. Rihanna would have 833 Weeks, if you include 'All Of The Lights', which is sometimes credited to Kanye West Featuring Rihanna - A No.15 Hit, & 20 Chart Weeks. (2011). To W/E 31st August 2013, my Top 20 is:, 1) ELVIS PRESLEY - 1303 2) CLIFF RICHARD - 1177 3) RIHANNA - 813 4) SHADOWS - 770 5) MADONNA - 737 6) ELTON JOHN - 673 7) MICHAEL JACKSON - 670 8) DIANA ROSS - 568 9) ROD STEWART - 478 10) DAVID GUETTA - 467 11)=BEATLES - 465 11)=KANYE WEST - 465 13) KYLIE MINOGUE - 460 14) DAVID BOWIE - 459 15) QUEEN - 445 16)=FRANK SINATRA - 440 16)=JAY-Z - 440 18) STEVIE WONDER - 435 19) STATUS QUO - 434 20) PAUL McCARTNEY/WINGS - 424
August 26, 201311 yr Interesting Zeus, I've just checked my Rihanna data against Polyhex This is what I have Rihanna 03/09/05 Pon De Replay (16 Weeks) 10/12/05 If It's Lovin' That You Want (8 Weeks) 22/04/06 SOS (13 Weeks) 22/07/06 Unfaithful (19 Weeks) 28/10/06 We Ride (5 Weeks) 26/05/07 Umbrella (51 Weeks) - Rihanna featuring Jay-Z 28/07/07 Shut Up And Drive (21 Weeks) 20/10/07 Hate That I Love You (19 Weeks) - Rihanna featuring Ne-Yo 15/12/07 Don't Stop The Music (34 Weeks) 24/05/08 Take A Bow (23 Weeks) 14/06/08 If I Never See Your Face Again (11 Weeks) - Maroon 5 featuring Rihanna 14/06/08 Disturbia (32 Weeks) 15/11/08 Live Your Life (22 Weeks) - T.I. featuring Rihanna 29/11/08 Rehab (13 Weeks) - Rihanna featuring Justin Timberlake 12/09/09 Run This Town (12 Weeks) - Jay-Z featuring Rihanna & Kanye West 05/12/09 Russian Roulette (20 Weeks) 05/12/09 Wait Your Turn (2 Weeks) 23/01/10 Hard (7 Weeks) - Rihanna featuring Young Jeezy 30/01/10 Rude Boy (30 Weeks) 06/02/10 Stranded (Haiti Mon Amour) (1 Week) - Jay-Z featuring Bono The Edge & Rihanna 01/05/10 Te Amo (19 Weeks) 03/07/10 Love The Way You Lie (48 Weeks) - Eminem featuring Rihanna 06/11/10 Only Girl (In The World) (41 Weeks) 27/11/10 What's My Name? (27 Weeks) - Rihanna featuring Drake 27/11/10 S & M (32 Weeks) 11/12/10 Who's That Chick? (29 Weeks) - David Guetta featuring Rihanna 21/05/11 California King Bed (16 Weeks) 18/06/11 Man Down (7 Weeks) 03/09/11 Cheers (Drink To That) (11 Weeks) 10/09/11 Fly (15 Weeks) - Nicki Minaj & Rihanna 15/10/11 We Found Love (49 Weeks) - Rihanna featuring Calvin Harris 05/11/11 Princess Of China (25 Weeks) - Coldplay & Rihanna 26/11/11 Take Care (38 Weeks) - Drake featuring Rihanna 03/12/11 Talk That Talk (9 Weeks) - Rihanna featuring Jay-Z 03/12/11 You Da One (16 Weeks) 03/12/11 Where Have You Been (20 Weeks) 13/10/12 Diamonds (38 Weeks) 01/12/12 Right Now (2 Weeks) - Rihanna featuring David Guetta 01/12/12 Nobody's Business (1 Week) - Rihanna featuring Chris Brown 01/12/12 Half Of Me (1 Week) 22/12/12 Stay (25 Weeks) - Rihanna featuring Mikky Ekko 27/04/13 Pour It Up (1 Week) Total of 829 weeks Polyhex agrees with the number of weeks in all cases and I've checked the adding up and it comes to 829. Could you have missed out the first song for example when adding it up?
August 26, 201311 yr ~for what it's worth~ I'll throw in the total I get for Rihanna's top 75 weeks as well (split into years (which don't necessarily match up to the OCC's years) because that's easier to do with the format of my spreadsheet). 2005 18wks 2006 40wks 2007 69wks 2008 132wks (includes 3wks for 'Just Stand Up!') 2009 45wks 2010-2013 528wks (don't need to count these because I keep these decade to date stats already - this doesn't include 20 weeks for 'All Of The Lights') So that's 832 weeks, 829 if you don't count 'Just Stand Up!', 852 if you do count 'All Of The Lights'. (And 849 if you do count 'AOTL' but don't count 'JSU!') In other words, I agree with fchd's total.
August 27, 201311 yr Here are the Top 10 artists in the order of weeks spent on the UK Singles chart. 1,301 Elvis Presley 1,175 Cliff Richard 850 Rihanna 770 The Shadows 735 Madonna 672 Elton John 670 Diana Ross 665 Michael Jackson 479 Kanye West 476 Rod Stewart Totals are up to and including week ending 24th August 2013. Weeks only included where artists are specially named as a contributing artist on a hit. Therefore, Shadows hits with Cliff are included, but Michael Jackson hits with the Jackson 5 are not (unless it is listed as Michael Jackson and the Jackson 5). Likewise Diana Ross' total includes hits as Diana Ross & the Supremes, but not as the Supremes. Like the website! Love these kind of lists. Many years ago when the now sadly defunct British Hit Singles used to be published annually, and it was under its original authors Paul Gambccini, Tim Rice & Johnathan Rice they used to print loads of lists and feats like these and the ones your blog, in the back of their book. Edited August 27, 201311 yr by fiesta
August 27, 201311 yr Here are the top 40 artists by weeks on the singles chart in the decade to date (counting from W/E 09/01/2010 to W/E 31/08/2013), using the top 75 only as per the rest of this thread to be consistent: 1 Rihanna 528 2 David Guetta 383 3 Bruno Mars 306 4 Tinie Tempah 294 5 Nicki Minaj 254 6 Adele 252 7 Lady Gaga 233 8 Katy Perry 229 9 Flo Rida 221 10 Pitbull 210 11 Jessie J 207 12 Glee Cast 197 13 Calvin Harris 195 14 will.i.am 192 =15 Chris Brown 188 =15 Emeli Sandé 188 17 Jay-Z 174 18 Justin Bieber 166 19 Olly Murs 163 20 Kanye West 159 21 LMFAO 154 22 Ellie Goulding 150 23 One Direction 148 24 Ed Sheeran 147 25 B.o.B 145 =26 The Black Eyed Peas 144 =26 Florence + The Machine 144 28 Usher 142 =29 Beyoncé 141 =29 Drake 141 31 Eminem 138 =32 Example 136 =32 Ke$ha 136 34 Coldplay 132 35 Lil Wayne 127 36 Labrinth 124 =37 Ne-Yo 123 =37 The Wanted 123 =39 Jason Derulo 122 =39 P!nk 122 This covers 191 chart weeks so 14 artists have an average of more than 1 song in the chart each week. Rihanna has an average of 2.76 songs in the chart per week.
August 27, 201311 yr Author Like the website! Love these kind of lists. Many years ago when the now sadly defunct British Hit Singles used to be published annually, and it was under its original authors Paul Gambccini, Tim Rice & Johnathan Rice they used to print loads of lists and feats like these and the ones your blog, in the back of their book. Thanks for your kind words about my blog - I'm definitely a lists man!
August 27, 201311 yr Author Thanks to everybody who responded to my list - with artists guesting on each other's tracks these days it is difficult to keep track. I have used the artists as listed in the Guinness Books up until end of 2005, and the artists as listed on the Official Charts Company website since then. For instance, on the OCC site, All Of The Lights credits Kanye West, Drake & Rihanna whereas Just Stand Up is credited to Artists Stand Up To Cancer. But I agree, it is difficult to get the exact figures right!!
August 27, 201311 yr Author These sort of lists are minefields! For what it's worth, I've got: 1299 Elvis 1175 Cliff 829 Rihanna 742 Shadows 736 Madonna 664 Michael Jackson 661 Elton John 559 Diana Ross 481 Kanye West 477 David Guetta 476 Rod Stewart 465 Beatles 464 Jay-Z 461 Kylie 453 Bowie etc. etc. etc. At least I agree with you re Cliff & Rod! I'll go back over my data over the next 48 hours and see if I can spot where I'm light, particulary re Diana Ross. In terms of Rihanna, I don't have her credited individually on "All of The Lights" or "Just Stand Up" but that would add 23 weeks and make her 852 rather than the 850 you have Thanks for looking at my list - as I said I have included in Diana Ross' total, the tracks that are credited to Diana Ross & the Supremes, but not the Supremes only. Hope this helps.
August 27, 201311 yr Thanks to everybody who responded to my list - with artists guesting on each other's tracks these days it is difficult to keep track. I have used the artists as listed in the Guinness Books up until end of 2005, and the artists as listed on the Official Charts Company website since then. For instance, on the OCC site, All Of The Lights credits Kanye West, Drake & Rihanna whereas Just Stand Up is credited to Artists Stand Up To Cancer. But I agree, it is difficult to get the exact figures right!! The OCC credit for 'All Of The Lights' is strange considering Drake doesn't have a significant role on the song (I was going to say he's not on it at all but it appears he is, just as a backing vocalist). I only credit Kanye on the song as per the album tracklisting which doesn't list any features. On the other hand I credit every artist separately on 'Just Stand Up!' because the actual single release doesn't use the term 'Artists Stand Up To Cancer' as far as I can tell.
August 27, 201311 yr Author Thanks for looking at my list - as I said I have included in Diana Ross' total, the tracks that are credited to Diana Ross & the Supremes, but not the Supremes only. Hope this helps. Oops, just realised that I had included the pre 1967 Supremes tracks in her total!! I now have her as 569 weeks. Thanks for the tip!!
August 27, 201311 yr Author The OCC credit for 'All Of The Lights' is strange considering Drake doesn't have a significant role on the song (I was going to say he's not on it at all but it appears he is, just as a backing vocalist). I only credit Kanye on the song as per the album tracklisting which doesn't list any features. On the other hand I credit every artist separately on 'Just Stand Up!' because the actual single release doesn't use the term 'Artists Stand Up To Cancer' as far as I can tell. Yes, the featured artists are a minefield as has been stated on this post previously, I have stuck to the OCC listings as that was the only way I could think of to get the definitive answer. I didn't expect to start such a huge debate - Great, though!!
August 28, 201311 yr I've posted the curent "state of play" for artists in my system to a pdf file at http://www.fchd.info/temp/ARTISTWEEKS.pdf I've restricted it to those with 50 weeks or more to keep the size of the file manageable for now. Artists shown in red are in this week's Top 75. I know there are still some issues with it - I've realised I haven't added all Marvin Gaye's duets to his total for instance. Other work is still ongoing (and probably always will be!) You may notice some minor differences to the Guetta & Minogue totals I posted earlier Edited August 28, 201311 yr by fchd
August 28, 201311 yr Author I've posted the curent "state of play" for artists in my system to a pdf file at I've restricted it to those with 50 weeks or more to keep the size of the file manageable for now. Artists shown in red are in this week's Top 75. I know there are still some issues with it - I've realised I haven't added all Marvin Gaye's duets to his total for instance. Other work is still ongoing (and probably always will be!) You may notice some minor differences to the Guetta & Minogue totals I posted earlier fchd, you are a legend!! Thanks for posting this list, I am certainly going to double check my totals to yours, I am also checking back using the Guinness books up to 2005, and OCC from then. Once I am happy with my new totals, I will repost them. Thanks again!!
August 28, 201311 yr I'd leave checking against mine for a week or two, I've still got some "featured" artists credits to allocate to the right place, for instance since I posted I've upped Dina Carroll's weeks by adding those supporting Quartz to her total, and taken a couple of weeks off David Guetta where I gave him a featured on the Egg's original version of Walking Away when he was only credited on the remake. I will be working on it between now and Saturday, then I've got lots of FA Cup results to add to the main part of the website which will take most of next week, then back to chart data the week after. I'd still be interested in how you get your Rihanna total though.
August 30, 201311 yr I've posted the curent "state of play" for artists in my system to a pdf file at http://www.fchd.info/temp/ARTISTWEEKS.pdf I've restricted it to those with 50 weeks or more to keep the size of the file manageable for now. Artists shown in red are in this week's Top 75. I know there are still some issues with it - I've realised I haven't added all Marvin Gaye's duets to his total for instance. Other work is still ongoing (and probably always will be!) You may notice some minor differences to the Guetta & Minogue totals I posted earlier Very interesting! Thanks for sharing.
September 1, 201311 yr Author I'd leave checking against mine for a week or two, I've still got some "featured" artists credits to allocate to the right place, for instance since I posted I've upped Dina Carroll's weeks by adding those supporting Quartz to her total, and taken a couple of weeks off David Guetta where I gave him a featured on the Egg's original version of Walking Away when he was only credited on the remake. I will be working on it between now and Saturday, then I've got lots of FA Cup results to add to the main part of the website which will take most of next week, then back to chart data the week after. I'd still be interested in how you get your Rihanna total though. Just manually started double checking my totals, and this is what I have so far. 1. Elvis 1,302 weeks 2. Cliff 1,176 weeks 3. Rihanna 849 weeks 4. Shadows 771 weeks For Rihanna in 2010 I had 118 weeks instead of 117, so I have amended my total.
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